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When we saw the release notes for the latest versions of SmarterMail and SmarterStats it didn't take us long to make the decision to upgrade. Many of our customers already use SmarterMail (both our hosted version and internal installations) as a cost effective mail and collaboration solution to Microsoft Exchange.

The latest version has improved synchronization features, easy migration from other mail platforms, improved anti spam and even better support for mobile devices on most popular platforms (BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, iPhone, Nokia).

With many people having more than one email address, managing many different accounts can be difficult. With SmarterMail you can manage all of your accounts from one easy to use interface.

New Features Available in SmarterMail 6.x:

• Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync Add-on
  
  The addition of Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync as an optional SmarterMail add-on for brings the speed of the leading over-the-air synchronization technology to SmarterMail customers. Exchange ActiveSync reduces sync time, extends the battery life of mobile devices, and delivers better syncing for collaboration features than any other platform.
   
• Enhanced Outlook Synchronization
  
  SmarterMail 6.x introduces two-way syncing with Microsoft Outlook 2007 without the use of any third party tools, making managing and maintaining calendars, contacts, tasks, and notes faster and more efficient for users.
   
• Hassle-free Mailbox Migration
  
  SmarterMail 6.x makes mailbox migration simple with open source converters and a built-in mail server conversion tool. The built-in mailbox migration feature gives users the ability to import email and collaboration items from most email platforms and services—making it easier and more cost-effective to acquire new customers and manage migrations.
   
• SpamAssassin-based Pattern Matching Engine
  
  Based on SpamAssassin technology, the powerful pattern matching engine can process substantially higher volumes of email per day than previous versions of SmarterMail without the need for a distributed antispam server.
   
• Improved Message Archiving
  
  Email archiving and retrieval is taken to a new level in SmarterMail 6.x. The new archiving section allows for the more effective search and retrieval of archived email. Businesses required to save emails due to legal and regulatory requirements will find SmarterMail an ideal solution, for compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX), Health Information Privacy and Accountability Act (HIPAA), and other regulatory requirements.
   
• New Antispam Measures
  
  SmarterMail 6.x strengthens out-of-the-box spam protection with additional antispam measures, including DKIM spam check, additional greylisting rules and POP message filtering. These additions help to ensure that SmarterMail is the leader in out-of-the-box email spam protection—blocking 97% of spam.
   
• Commtouch Premium Antispam Add-on
  
  When used in conjunction with SmarterMail’s out-of-the-box antispam features, the optional Commtouch Premium Antispam add-on delivers upwards of 99.5% spam protection. Commtouch technology compliments SmarterMail’s built-in antispam features by adding real-time email transmission pattern recognition.
   
• Improved Mailing Lists
  
  SmarterMail 6.x greatly enhances mailing list functionality with advanced features normally only found in stand-alone mass mailing applications. The additions of bounce detection with automatic removal, double opt-in, subscriber custom fields, mail merge, logging per subscriber, message prioritization, and much more, not only provide tools to successfully manage large mailing lists, but when used in conjunction with the throttling and prioritization features it can help protect the server from being saturated.
   
• Manage All Email Accounts from One Interface
  
  With the combination of POP importing, IMAP importing, SMTP identities, and multiple signatures—Webmail users can now effectively use one SmarterMail account to manage all of their email accounts. Users can reply using multiple SMTP identities with ease and have immediate access to primary SmarterMail calendars and contacts—allowing full access to all of SmarterMail’s collaboration tools, synchronization features, and more from one Web interface.
   
• Enhanced Webmail and Administration Interface
  
  Dozens of new features have been added to SmarterMail 6.x to improve the user and administrator experience, including Silverlight reports and charts, new message attachment and attachment thumbnail views, and user-definable columns for contacts, calendars, and tasks.

* NOTE - not all features are available on our hosted platform. For more information speak to one of our sales representatives.

Improve Business Intelligence with Web Site Statistics

SmarterStats is a comprehensive Web log analytics tool that cost-effectively delivers relevant, accurate and detailed Web site statistics to help businesses increase conversions and maximize ROI. With SmarterStats, you can:

• Use Web site statistics to analyze the performance of your marketing campaigns
• Measure Web site visitor traffic without spider and bot pollution
• Use data mining to identify the most popular pages of your Web site
• Determine the Web pages that search engines are indexing
• Discover how visitors navigate their Web site
• Track the referring pages and searches that brought visitors to their site

New Features Available in SmarterStats:

• New Optimized Interface Design
  
  SmarterStats 4.x utilizes STInterfaceFramework, a fully skinnable Web interface with Drag and Drop, right mouse click support, and optimized AJAX controls—bringing the features and performance of a desktop application to the Web.
   
• Advanced Charts and Graphs
  
  Advanced dynamic Charts and Graphs have been added utilizing using Microsoft Silverlight.
   
• Web-based log viewer
  
  Identify problems quickly with a Web-based viewer that allows administrators to view error log data.
   
• Propagation of Settings
  
  Settings can be propagated across websites, domains, and entire systems in one step—saving valuable time and resources.
   
• Getting Started Wizards for Administrators and Users
  
  SmarterStats now includes intuitive Wizards to assist both users and administrators as they set up and configure SmarterStats.
   
• Enhanced Reports
  
  Reporting is now based after the STReportingFramework for improved speed and flexibility. More than 30 new reports have been added—bringing the total number of available reports to more than 100.
   
• Spider and Bot Identification and Reporting
  
  The ability to isolate and separate spider traffic gives individuals the power to see into search engine methods (e.g., Google, Yahoo!, MSN Live, and Ask). Reporting is now separated between real visitor data and spider/bot traffic. New spider report items have been added for a total of 15 spider report items.
   
• Added Data Mining Capability
  
  Data Mining—normally available only to large enterprises and often requiring expensive software applications—is a process of organizing and sorting large amounts of data to isolate information relevant to a specific circumstance or business need. New data mining reports have been added to SmarterStats for a total of 15 data mining reports with enhanced ability to drill down into data from report items.
   
• Additional Geographic Items and Reports
  
  SmarterStats provides the ability to visually see website performance graphically and to allow the identification of markets across borders and without boundaries. New geographic report items (including breakdowns by city) have been added for a total of 18 geographic report items.

SmarterStats is available at no extra cost on all of our hosting packages. To find out how SmarterMail and SmarterStats can help your business, or for technical support in using these solutions, please contact us.

For detailed information about either product please visit the manufacturers web site at http://www.smartertools.com/HomePage.aspx

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